Saturday, August 3, 2013

Ditko Beetle Designs!

While surfing Google images for more Blue Beetle goodness I stumbled on this...

The page it was linked to says this is a page from Ditko's sketchbook showing his early designs for Ted Kord's costume...a design that remained more or less intact and unchanged from 1966, even as the character moved from Charlton to DC, until Ted's death in 2005!

It's too bad Charlton wasn't really interested in its comic books. BB has all the ingredients to be hit: great costume, fantastic vehicle, nifty gadgets, strong supporting cast, and even a few memorable villains given such a short publication life. Certainly appeals to me more than Wolverine.

About Me

I like to think of myself as a sort of Renaissance man. I've always been somewhat artistic, but after completing college and realizing my degree wasn't what I wanted to do for a living, I settled into a desk job and decided to keep learning, enjoying life and seeing what was out there. That's led me to, among other things (in no particular order)...writer/poet, magic classes, clown classes, artist, freelance comic work, acting classes, impressions, courses on Egyptology, becoming ordained as an online minister, bartender's certification, and blogger...but the list keeps growing!